need 2 hook up fishfinder to GPS Receiver & VHF/FM Transceiver

martygry7162

Petty Officer 2nd Class
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i need to hook my Hummingbird matrix 25 w/ The Hummingbird GR4 GPS Receiver Accessory to my Standard Horizon Quest GX1255S VHF/FM Transceiver<br /><br />Now with the GPS receiver i've got a NMEA signal through the "pigtail" cable attached to the end of the GR4 GPS Receiver cable to connect to devises such as autopilots (and FM transceiver?) it says to connect the NMEA (white wire) of the cable to the NMEA in of the devise you are connecting to your FF the pinouts of this cable are as follows <br /><br />red wire +12v (output voltage only)<br /><br />black wire, ground<br /><br />white wire NMEA out<br /><br />are these 3 wires above in said pigtail? <br /><br />now on to the radio,<br />standard horizon quest gx1255s<br /><br />on the back there's an accessory connection cable with 3 wires<br /> <br />green NMEA ground -<br /><br />blue NMEA input +<br /><br />purple NMEA technician test wire???????? yes no?<br /><br /> now in order to connect these 2 units heres what i propose tell me if it's wrong and why you think it's wrong and then the right way to do it<br /><br />on the radio i took 2, 22 gauge butt connectors and put one on the green/ground- <br />and one on the blue/input +<br />the purple/tech wire i liquid taped <br />then i connected a 2 pole connector(red & white wires) to the butt connectors <br />connecting the red to the blue and the white to the green. <br />now i need to do the same thing to the pigtail of the NMEA wire going from the GPS to the asseccory connection of the fishfinder back down to the pigtail were theres 3 wire in the tail <br /><br />red= +12v<br /><br />black= ground<br /><br />white= NMEA out <br /><br />so i think it goes like this the white NMEA out wire on the pigtail goes to the blue NMEA input<br />and the black ground from the pigtail goes to the green thers a home made drawing of what i think it looks like on my home page listed in my profile just go to home page and the link says GPS
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martygry7162

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Re: need 2 hook up fishfinder to GPS Receiver & VHF/FM Transceiver

does anyone have this set up on the boat i got a fishfinder w/ gps receiver and a vhf/fm transceiver you hook all 3 together for disstess i can't be the only guy here looking to or having this type of set up
 

Boatist

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Re: need 2 hook up fishfinder to GPS Receiver & VHF/FM Transceiver

MartyGray<br />What you have shown looks right to me.<br />My radio is older and does not have that feature so I am no expert.<br />One question I have is about the radio. I know the Coast Guard had so much trouble with the automatic distress before that you now must get a code that identifies your radio before the DSC works. There were so many hitting the button by mistake or as a game that Coast Guard going crasy trying to locate where signal comming from. Worse than the boy that keep yelling wofe. I belive they called it MMS but do not know what it stands for. Do you know what it stands for and do you get the code from the FCC or Coast Guard? Also is there any cost to register and get your MMS code.<br /><br />Hope you will report back how it works as would like to add a newer radio to my boat with the DSC.
 

martygry7162

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Re: need 2 hook up fishfinder to GPS Receiver & VHF/FM Transceiver

hey boatist thanks for that artical it's called MMSI (maritime mobile service identity) and your right you do need that to be takin for serious distress.....................i'm kind of surprised that your the only responder to my post speacially when you read that artical where is refers to the amount of boater using this type of distress call.... and as for being right i'm pretty sure it is. because while trying to set it up for explaination i kind of put 2 & 2 together and just hooked it up as you see here.......<br />that doesn't mean i'm not interested in hearing from some more of you on this so thanks BOATIST and thanks to anyone else's good advice
 
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